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• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  I don't know that I agree assassinations always make political situations worse, tbh. I would have agreed, right up until 2022. I'd argue Shinzo Abe was the most politically significant assassination since Lincoln, and unlike that one it shifted things...
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  I always thought Unknown Armies could work well for a Laundry Files game - it's got one of the best mental health systems in gaming, it's designed to work at power levels ranging from "Hapless Mortal" to "Semi-Divine Eldritch Entity",...
• Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
  IIRC, it's "'Gainst Who?!", and then after the song provides the answer it's "Wankers!" Personally, though, I've always preferred the unofficial 'anthem' "Scotland the Brave"!...
• Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
  How much would it cost to buy every single vacant, foreign-investment-vehicle property in the UK and turn it into maintenance-cost-only rentable properties? What's left over after that, electrify as much of the planet that isn't currently electrified as possible -...
• Commented on Someone please sack the script-writers
  My first assumption was that it was some sort of nonsense cover, like the old Blue Book and early drone programs, but then what the hell would they be covering for? Unless we also assume that all the official government...
• Commented on Someone please sack the script-writers
  I still think the silliest sub-plot this year is the US Navy claiming to have operable room temperature superconductors, EM force fields, gravity generators, and a "Hybrid Underwater/Aerospace Craft"...
• Commented on Happy Halloween!
  Really enjoyed the book - managed to be blackly hilarious in some of the most unexpected places, which is an OGH trademark but one I've seldom seen so well executed! One slight flaw that jumped out at me, though -...
• Commented on Test Case
  Winding back a bit, but either (quite likely) I'm missing a joke or you've got your quote wrong - the Redwall line is "I am that is". (Normally I'd leave it, but I'm never bloody sure with you...)...
• Commented on Dark State: how to get signed copies!
  Just saw a copy out on the shelf at my local Waterstones! Naturally, being a Good Samaritan I picked it up and took it home so no careless members of the book-reading public would spoil themselves before the official street...
• Commented on Radio silence
  Well, apart from anything else a suspension of democracy is a direct threat to their personal power, no?...
• Commented on Book day!
  I have to say I was a lot happier not knowing about the status of the Duchy of Cornwall, by the way....
• Commented on Book day!
  I'm wondering if the name of operation CONSTITUENCY and the Mandate's nom de guerre are relevant to the SA's plan - we know that Angleton wasn't so much bound as he was civilised, so maybe the op was intended to...
• Commented on Report on Seat 14C
  Sorry, I hate double posting, but - This, but weaponized, basically: https://youtu.be/bR4Gq9qfpnM You mean this?...
• Commented on Report on Seat 14C
  I could have misunderstood what I was told, but haven't GPs already been entirely privatised? Plus the whole PFI thing, of course, and the recent attempt to sell the staffing agency....
• Commented on Rejection Letter
  Robert Heinlein wrote a whole chapter breaking down this idea and providing worked examples in "For us, the Living" - it's part of his argument for Universal Basic Income....
• Commented on Rejection Letter
  There's a certain degree of dark amusement to be taken in someone accusing a religio-ethnic group of concerted efforts to distribute material accusing a religio-ethnic group of conspiracy....
• Commented on Traveller RPG, Firefly, Dumarest, Vatta's War... are they all "Star Punk"?
  “My gift to industry is the genetically engineered worker, or Genejack. Specially designed for labor, the Genejack’s muscles and nerves are ideal for his task, and the cerebral cortex has been atrophied so that he can desire nothing except to...
• Commented on The sudden eruption of news
  Warren Ellis spotted it pretty well....
• Commented on The sudden eruption of news
  An entirely new weapons system may be unlikely, but if the US navy have successfully got their railguns working for ABM defence that would presage a sudden, dramatic end to the idea of MAD....
• Commented on We get mail (contd.)
  I mean, imagine everyone in sales replaced by a sales robot: No, but I can imagine them replaced by a website or a tablet. Does this mean that 15 million jobs just disappeared, so now people are unemployed? Of course...
• Commented on We get mail (contd.)
  For me it was "Jesus saves! Everyone else takes damage." Which may say quite a lot about the era and social circles I grew up in....
• Commented on Policy change: future US visits
  I'm actually put in mind of something from Snow Crash, if you've read it - it features "The Raft", a floating refugee city built around an old aircraft carrier....
• Commented on Policy change: future US visits
  The thing about the monarchy, though, is that it makes the head of state largely apolitical. I've always regarded that as one of the problems with America's construction - an elected head of state is, by default, an opponent of...
• Commented on Policy change: future US visits
  I thought they mostly went to Cape Canaveral? I'm actually due in the US myself towards the end of February, and am worrying about what devices to take - especially since I'm actually going to be in DC. I'd leave...
• Commented on And the Rabid Nazi Raccoons shall inherit the Earth
  I think the worst thing about that list is that I can no longer trust the Danish....
• Commented on "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!" 2017 continued.
  I can't help but feel the major flaw in these predictions is that you have a Patriot system in Gulf actually hitting what it was aiming at......
• Commented on Things Can Only Get Better! (Part 1)
  That culturaly tight group is generally referred to as "The Army". (Or I guess "The Marines" in the States, maybe? I'm sure the US Army has grunts, but by cultural product you really wouldn't think so...)...
• Commented on Empire Games sneak peek
  I would be damned curious to see who the west would back in a fight between an independent Kurdistan and Turkey. I mean, I know who I would want them to back, I've an abiding fondness for the PKK dating...
• Commented on In other news ...
  Huh... I'm all in favour, obviously, but I thought there were legal reasons authors couldn't acknowledge fanfic? Opened them up to "You stole my idea" lawsuits, or something?...
• Commented on Empire Games sneak peek
  I actually bounced pretty hard off the series just based on the synopses and original book covers - it wasn't until I saw the omnibus editions that I really grokked what was going on....